skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ain't that the damn truth! I was at 37C3 and they had these knucklehead presenters advocating to essentially pass legislation to have people take more public transport like buses and they were proposing this as a worldwide solution while also criticizing companies like Tesla that they are just "green washing".

I had to be the first to line up to a mic to give them a piece of my mind. I asked them have they even been to the US(many Europeans just cannot internalize the true scale of the country)

Also asked what are they going to do when the populations starts to lash out against these forced proposals and turn to the far side of the other aisle in response. They didn't seem convinced and got applause for their response.

Well given that a year has passed and the political shockwaves we have seen all around the world, I had the last laugh (unfortunately).

I also realized how much of a bubble these 'enlightened hackers' are in. They are so convinced of their intelligence that they just totally reject what the populations of the world are really thinking. It was really an eye opening moment for me as I have been a fan of CCC for decades since I was a little kid.
After a quick scan through the [2] link, I have added this to the list of things to look into in 2025
> So you can often construct values m1, m2, and compute:

And what would m1 and m2 be for the specific problem¹ described in TFA?

¹ Namely, to find out if the input belongs to [0-9A-Za-z]
I thought these things were pretty inferable
Base M2 or M3 won't work either; a Thunderbolt dock cannot work around a lack of display pipes on the SoC. The M4 is the first base M-series chip that supports two external displays in addition to the internal display, hence the slightly different phrasing in your quote for the M4 generation.
Heh, I totally agree with you.

I don't know hoe many times I've explained people the given strategy is not what researchers mean when they compare lump sum investing (LSI, a.k.a. converting all cash you have available for investing into equities) and dollar-cost averaging (DCA, a.k.a. splitting the available cash into equal parts and slowly converting the cash into equities at a regular pace.)

What that strategy is is just a regular (e.g. monthly) series of lump sum investments every time cash comes available (e.g. when salary comes in), that people tend to confuse with a DCA strategy.

Having said that: one LSI investment every month is a great strategy that historically does better than any DCA strategy.

ETA:

Relevant research:

- Vanguard Research's Dollar-cost Averaging is Just Taking Risk Later: https://www.passiveinvestingaustralia.com/wp-content/uploads...
- PWL Capital / Ben Felix's Dollar Cost Averaging v.s. Lump Sum Investing: https://pwlcapital.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Dollar-Cos...
Yes, semicolons are totally unnecessary. That’s why nobody who works on JavaScript has ever regretted that automatic semicolon insertion was added to the language. It has never prevented the introduction of new syntaxes to the language (like discussed here: <https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057#issuecomment-5...>), nor motivated the addition of awkward grammatical contortions like [no LineTerminator here].
Actalis does do free S/MIME certificates for private use, but they do not allow using your own CSR. They generate the private key for you and allow you to download it, but the key stays on the server forever AFAICT.
At this point, Apple is absolutely not afraid of an anti-trust lawsuit. To them, it is part of the cost of doing business
> Bookmark applications are generally a failure for long term storage because links always change over time..

Combine them with an automatic-upload-to-archive-dot-org-(if-not-there-already?) function, and save the link to that also? Dunno if any bookmarking app has that already.

[EDIT:] Heh, look – someone is apparently doing precisely that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42502175 [/EDIT]
I imagine it was an issue to some extent when it happened, but DS9 and ENT established they look different in-universe and it wasn't just a new design.
Going back and watching the original Star Trek is something…

I never knew that the action packed space drama came from a preachy arduous allegory to irrelevant social dilemmas. Unwatchable.

The rebrands are pretty interesting but I’m trying to figure out how those even happened now.

How did the IP go from controversial lessons to flashy space wars.
> but anything else will literary harm the distro ability to evolve and adapt to software changes.

Comparing nixpkgs to the AUR seems to reflect the opposite trend. Arch is hamstrung by a dependence on outdated and poorly maintained repos that cannot coexist with up-to-date packages. Unless you fully embrace static linking or atomic installs, you'll end up with breakage.

MacOS went the static linking route, and Windows wrote back-compat for most old software by hand. The "decades of history" hasn't proven any approach right or wrong. They're all flawed.
No it is not. It leads to blind spots and a poor understanding of whats really happening in the world when you are presenting niche ideas as if they are the future thats just around the corner. CCC really needs to vet these speakers better or else just give up and invite anyone to present nonsense.
One of the factors is how users phrase their queries. On some level people are used to full text search but semantic shines when they ask literal questions with terminology that may not match the answer.
We often don't know what is or isn't information we don't want others to have, and it will be a lot harder, if not impossible, to delete it after-the-fact. Especially when you consider how it only takes a few innocuous data points to derive what might be information you'd rather not disclose.
Show HN: DIY video magnifier for people with low vision
Hi, happy to share this simple video magnifier built from a Raspberry Pi and camera: https://github.com/ctrlw/magni

It captures anything under the camera and displays it on a connected HDMI screen. It can be controlled with push buttons, the buttons of a mouse or a (numeric) keyboard to iterate through a few predefined magnification levels, but can also switch colour mode (colour inversion and others) or read out text via TTS while staying completely on device.

I originally started this for my grandmother who had Macular Degeneration, to give her a second device beside her commercial video magnifier (which costs a few 1000s), and have been updating it regularly over the years. The code is python and the hardware setup is mostly up to you, although I provide a few examples from simply sticking the device to a desk lamp or monitor, up to a nice portable 3d printed design.

If you build it, please let me know any feedback or improvements. Happy holidays!
> it’s unlikely we go back to a time where kids became self sufficient

Well, yeah. To keep my assertion simple, I didn't want to add that I see no path to restoring kids' social ecosystems - and their mental health. I see no path to unwinding/overcoming the damage done by automobile culture.
I wonder why you use any habit tracker, after all, you notice yourself when you slack on them. And being reminded that you didn't do anything is not helpful and having done a whole month does not guarantee the next month. How do you see it?
It'll be Tolkien next.
> thread starter is about Ruby's relative position.

I guess we disagree on that part.
That may be the case, but I can't personally confirm it.
On the other hand, I have never felt a particular need.
There were some or not.
They come and they go.
It probably also depends on what you want to understand by the term friend.
If the efficient market hypothesis is roughly correct, then publishing your secret idea immediately drops its value to roughly zero because everyone will adopt it.

If your strategy produces future gains above its risk-adjusted benchmark (i.e., real trading, not back-testing), then use the strategy and keep quiet. If you want others to benefit too, then just give away your gains to charity.
I regularly use Reddit without an account on Mullvad, try different nodes I usually use LA 503
Cannon only matters from a depth perspective.

40k is intended to be a silly franchise from a lore perspective. But consistency goes a long way to making even the most ridiculous settings something people can engage with. Autobots v Decepticons, Tom v Jerry, etc all rely on people being more engaged with what they would be based on what’s on the screen in that moment.
Does erasing Discovery from canon take the "Star Trek was always woke" argument along with it?
> Is the number of insects okay?

I don't mind the number of insects as long as they don't drive cars or want home appliances and don't need hospitals and schools.
> The term "stability" should not be used outside of the major Linux distributions such as Debian and Fedora.

RHEL peeks from behind some furniture

We all believe foolish things at some point in our life...
Silverblue also has really good distrobox integration. Anything not available via flatpak (or things I don't want via flatpak for whatever reason) goes in an arch or debian container. You can then export apps or binaries from the container and have it show up in your desktop menu or path.

Silverblue also supports package management via brew, which works pretty well for CLI utilities
Hallucinating symmetric protein assemblies (2022)
1. why mixbread's model?

2. how much efficiency gain did you see binarising embeddings/using hamming distance?

3. why milvus over other vector stores?

4. did you automate the weekly metadata pull? just a simple cron job? anything else you need orchestrated?

user thoughts on searching for "transformers on byte level not token level" - was good but didnt turn up https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09871 <- which is more recent, more people might want

also you might want more result density - so perhaps a UI option to collapse the abstracts and display more in the first glance.
Something I noticed is that some vim / keyboard only envs are paying a huge cognitive load price by holding various states in their mind and having to expand efforts every time they switching context.

Sometimes there is the added burden of an exotic linux distro or a dvorak layout on a specially shaped keyboard.

Now, some devs are capable of handling this. But not all do, I've seen many claiming they are more productive with it, but when compared to others, they were less productive.

They were slow and tired easily. They had a higher burn out rate. The had too much to pay upfront for their day to day coding task but couldn't see that their idealization of their situation was not matching reality.

My message here is: if you are in such env be very honest with yourself. Are you good enough that you are among the few that actually benefit from it?
Yeah, if you don't care about the art of storytelling then you don't value good storytelling. Makes sense.

And you're making the point for yourself: you just turned off of Star Trek. That's a business loss. That's why execs should care.
Undersea cables are also marked explicitly on all nautical charts. If a rented pleasure boat can, with plausible deniability as to intentionality, drag a hook across the sea floor and easily get away, the cabin isn’t the issue.

This isn’t the main weak point.
I concur, they are virtually untouchable in this respect. No one else will throw a trillion or more into developing lower power faster silicon.
Canada's population is distributed VERY differently than in the US. More than half the country lives in a narrow belt running from Quebec to Windsor, Ontario, barely 100 miles from the US border. In the US, there are commercial/business hubs in many places where people can settle, from NY, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta and Texas. And I haven't even mentioned the west coast!

Even in this article, the author says the growth in home builds have accrued to a handful of states in the South of the US. Supply elsewhere is still constrained, and costs are still high.
Like shelve, but with json instead of pickle, and sqlite instead of dbm; and you have a set of dicts instead of k/v store , with helpers to search by any dict field; and also pydantic support.
Well, technically it only establishes that there exist Klingons that look like the discovery Klingons in an alternate universe, not that there aren't also Klingons that look like discovery Klingons in the prime universe. That episode also seems to establish that there are universes that are temporally offset from the prime universe, as the transformations also include turning the Klingons into an older kind of Klingon ("proto-Klingons"), so it could just as well be that the discovery Klingons are just an older variant of Klingons.

This idea is strengthened by the fact that Discovery and Strange New Worlds are clearly shown to take place in the same universe, with Discovery introducing the characters and ship that appear in Strange New Worlds, and Spock from Strange New Worlds reflecting on the events of Discovery. And SNW later shows TNG style Klingons, establishing that both styles (as well as presumably TOS style Klingons) coexist in the same universe. So I don't think the Lower Decks episode resolves anything about the Klingon-look at all, it was just a fun reference/gag.

It could be that the shows exist in different timelines, but it could also be that any of the shows exist in different timelines that are just similar enough to make the references make sense. For instance, Lower Decks establishes that a Picard exists in it's universe, but also exists in many other universes (see the purple enterprise), so it doesn't necessarily take place in the same universe as TNG.
> I aggregate all the M4 Mac mini ports into a M4 cluster by mesh networking all its Serdes/PCIe with FPGAs into a very cheap low power supercomputer with exaflop performance. Cheaper than NVDIA. I'm sure Apple does the same in their data centers.

That sounds super interesting, do you happen to have some further information on that? Is it just a bunch of FPGAs issuing DMA TLPs?
Having used both Dafny and F* quite extensively, Dafny, and its predecessor Spec#, are simple and practical, thanks to being based on Hoare logic (contracts).

It's a great place to start with verification, as proofs are discharged to SAT/SMT, so things are automated. It can get a bit frustrating when automation is not able to prove things, that's the major disadvantage of SAT/SMT.

But it's not a toy. Some of the largest verification efforts have been done in Dafny. See e.g. IronFleet [1].

[1] https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/bparno/papers/ironfleet.pdf
The answer is simple. Antitrust makes rich people scared - spending money on politics now saves your bacon later.
Seems reasonable to implement a portion of an open spec for niche use cases like this.

Every browser takes several gigs of ram once you have more than a couple tabs open. I’m in the niche looking to trade off some functionality to gain some efficiency.
> Cyclomatic complexity seems one indicator, but architectural complexity needs to be clarified. I agree that how much modules expose to each other is one trait, but again, needs clarification. How do you intend to go about this?

Too much to summarize in a comment, I recommend reading the 3-blog series linked above. Architectural complexity is pretty well defined and we have an exact way to measure it.

Unfortunately there’s little industry tooling I’ve found to expose this number on the day-to-day. There’s 1 unpopular paid app with an awful business model – I couldn’t even figure out how to try it because they want you to talk to sales first /eyeroll.

I have some prototype ideas rolling around my brain but been focusing on writing the book first. Early experiments look promising.

There IS backing from cognitive research too – working memory. We struggle to keep track of more than ~7 independent items when working. The goal of abstraction (and this essay’s cognitive load idea) is to keep the number of independently moving or impacted pieces under 7 while working. As soon as your changes could touch more stuff than fits in your brain, it becomes extremely challenging to work with and you get those whack-a-mole situations where every bug you fix causes 2 new bugs.
Japan's Proof-of-Parking Rule
Because TOS and TNG were awesome and canon needed a patch. Discovery sucked and got flushed.
Because economic contagion starts from the banks, not the home builders. Home prices in TX will eventually have an impact on mortgage bonds issued by a New York bank.
I agree that it allows Apple to redefine Apple Silicon instruction sets without having do explain it to 3rd party software developers, but it is certainly not the main reason they hide the technical documentation of the chips.
Great points. I strongly agree with your first point. Regrettably, I haven't used any language that solves this. (But believe it's possible, and you've demonstrated with one I haven't used).

I'm stuck between two lesser evils, not having the ideal solution you found:
1: Rust: Commits the sin you say.
2: Python, Kotlin, C++ etc: Commits a worse sin: Prints lots of words.. (Varying degrees depending on which of these), where I may or may not be able to tell what's wrong, and if I can, I have to pick it out of a text well.

Regarding boilerplate: This is one of the things I dislike most about rust. (As an example). I feel like prefixing`#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]` on every (non-holding) enum is a flaw. Likewise, the way I use structs almost always results in prefixing each field with `pub`. (Other people use them in a different way, I believe, which doesn't require this)
As an oldschool trekkie it warms my heart to hear Discovery was deleted from canon. Hopefully next it gets deleted from archives.
Not sure why this is considered a "classic" piece. It reads as if the author has just discovered the difference between preemptive vs cooperative scheduling, but hasn't yet found the words to describe his "discovery". Yes, you can write a `while(true){}` loop and block the event loop. That's not some damning indictment of Node. The point is that you don't have to block on IO, so your program doesn't have to halt the entire world, and sit around doing nothing while you're waiting for a hard drive to spin or a network request to complete.
Lilygo T-SIM module as a dumbphone?
Has anyone tried or heard of building a custom dumbphone with a LilyGO T-SIM module? It seems like, aside from a battery, the hardware is mostly there. For the case, I’m thinking of something like an old Nokia 3310 shell.

My requirements are SMS, calls, and rudimentary access to WhatsApp or Signal (maybe via a custom hosted server offering API endpoints that the dumbphone could use).

Has anyone experimented with this or seen similar projects? It just seems to good to be true!
Of those 100 interviews I'd estimate:

- ~70% never go past the recruiter screen

- ~20% rejection after the technical screen (i.e., leetcoding)

- ~10% after a full round of interviews

Presumably I do or say something in interviews that is working against me. I also think that my background gives people the expectation that I should be able to reach a very high bar, and perhaps I set their expectations much higher than I can actually achieve (at least in interviews). Given my real-life interactions, I can confidently say I'm a fairly gregarious and affable person, so I doubt it's my personality that's the issue. But who knows, perhaps my ego is the problem.
To be clear, submodules work, you just have to use the git commands to update them. I agree things will be nicer when that’s not necessary though :)
>why the hell would it be "easier to read" if I had to jump up and down the file to 7 different submethods when the function's entire flow is always sequential?

If the submethods were clearly named then you'd only need to read the seven submethod names to understand what the function did, which is easier than reading 100 lines of code.
Indeed, this used to be my "secret trick" for laptops that wouldn't power on: Disconnect the battery and power supply, hold the power button for 30 seconds, then power it back up. Worked every time.
> Doesn't mean it's easy for another human to clearly see it.

Why do you think that matters? If it's not needed, then it should never have been there in the first place. If it helps to make the program readable by humans then it can be shown as part of the rendering of the program on a screen, but again, that should be part of the work the computer does, not the human. Unnecessary cognitive load is still unnecessary cognitive load regardless of the goal in whose name it is imposed.
Buildspace Is Revived
> irrelevant social dilemmas

Some of them, others not so much. In the original series there was an episode on computerized warfare and efficiency (Season 1 Episode 23 A Taste of Armageddon). In the later series "The Next Generation" there was an episode on AI and rights (Season 2 Episode 9 The Measure of a Man).

Both still get cited in actual work, probably because it's easier to direct someone to watch a reasonably short and entertaining TV episode than some 300 page book on the subject.
I was referring to the fact that you can memorize your seed phrase. If the seed is not recorded anywhere, the Bitcoins can be thought of as being held only in the mind of the owner.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet
My friend had an issue with a laptop that did not resolve until the battery was fully drained.
I think that’s because the change wasn’t between TOS and TNG. It was between TOS series and TOS films; new style Klingons were in Star Trek 3 (1984) and Star Trek 4 (1986) before TNG started.
We come to these conferences to "see where the puck is moving to" not to hear someone's fantasy tales. So far this has been true in the technical tracks. How many times have there been a talk at CCC that was the unveiling of new ways of thinking in tech? Too many to count.

CCC also has a strong history of debuting talks in the social track that really moved the needle in the 2010s. Think about the Wikileaks talks or Snowden or how about the Snowden Angels?

Recently this has not been the case in the social tracks (they got this past years political changes extremely wrong) and so the question is where is the conference making a mistake and how to course correct?
Jews wrote all the classic Christmas hits including:

- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

- Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

- The New Testament
> Recently added a trick to snapshot all the public links I save - my copy and on Archive.is - link rot is real.

Someone here needs exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42502576 (And possibly me too.) So yeah, please do continue and then publish it.
Controllable Christmas Lights
Your children, however, can eat their friends, and their friends' children.
If Discovery pulls SNW into the canon black hole with it there's no substantial loss. I wouldn't be too sad if Picard got sucked in too.

Genuinely this is really good headcanon though -- a great illustration of why canon matters as an imagination tool.
I think it's all about the framework, the memory palace you build to keep things organized. A secondary factor is the freedom and solitude to prevent extraneous concerns from interrupting you. The brain is not great at true multitasking (doing two or more things at the same time), but it can juggle.
I had the exact same problem and created a similar command with a slightly different strategy:

https://gitlab.com/kevincox/watchlog/-/blob/v1/README.md
Into CPS, Never to Return
not a chance! ;-)

the only way to win is not to play. that's easy to achive...
In many parts of the world it is illegal for a recruiting party to search for information on a candidate without their consent.